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Live markets: Bitcoin, ether lead $1 billion liquidation losses as AI trade keeps going
A liquidation flush took bitcoin to its lowest since early June before Micron's blowout earnings and SK Hynix's U.S. …
Your Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the Point
Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute …
Upheaval at the Ethereum Foundation has some of crypto’s biggest names feeling bullish
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at Ethereum's eventful week that started off with th…
Leaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 Back
A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not so…
OpenAI Turns Up the Heat With Jalapeño, Its First Custom AI Chip
Built with Broadcom, the LLM-focused accelerator is the first step in OpenAI's effort to design the hardware behind C…
Live markets: Bitcoin could drop to $59,000 in the short-term as liquidity dries up
Trading firm Wintermute's options desk puts bitcoin in a $61,242 to $63,563 range for Tuesday, with correlation risin…
AI chipmaker Cerebras down 11% after first public earnings report
While revenue was up 92% from year-ago levels, the company forecasted a lower core gross margin next quarter.
Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable
Someone fine-tuned Fable 5's reasoning style into a local Qwen model. Then someone else removed its conscience.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic's Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody's Shutting It Down
GPT-5.5-Cyber tops the CyberGym leaderboard as Anthropic's best models sit offline under a Trump administration expor…
AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI
A new benchmark designed to test strategic reasoning found an AI-controlled empire spent 50 turns developing nuclear …
A New OpenClaw Competitor: ToqanClaw Promises Privacy in AI Agent Race
Prosus launched ToqanClaw, a no-code AI platform positioned as an European alternative to AI agents like OpenClaw.
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will cut budget 40% in major reset
The reduction comes on the same day the EF confirmed a 20% reduction in headcount and follows the resignation of co-E…
Ethereum Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.
Trump signs orders to build a quantum computer and protect against the one that could break encryption
The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while si…
Google Warns AI Consciousness Debate Could Become a Political Battleground
A new paper from Google DeepMind argues that disagreements over whether AI is conscious could spill into politics, la…
The Studio Behind 'Ex Machina' Is Now Researching AI With Google
Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research initiative focused on filmmaking tools.
Ethereum Foundation talent exodus sparks fresh debate over leadership
The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang…
Taiko halts its Ethereum layer-2 network after a bridge exploit, token dives
An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year's biggest br…
Live markets: Bitcoin is stuck near $64,000 as ETF outflows reach a sixth week
Eased ETF selling and improving risk appetite are being offset by a firmer dollar and cautious institutional flows, l…
Bitcoin developers want to fix the 'replace this transaction with a higher fee' button. Here's why
A helpful feature of speeding up transactions has become redundant and a "fingerprint" for tracking. Developers now w…
Ethereum validators asked to fund projects with up to 10% of staking rewards under new proposal
A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raisin…
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligenc…
AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce…
Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit
Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals t…
OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark …
AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore
As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape wh…
Coinbase’s Base Targets June 25 For Beryl Upgrade And New B20 Token Standard
Coinbase's Base network is targeting June 25 for its Beryl mainnet upgrade, introducing a B20 token standard aimed at…
GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter
Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.
Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment
Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $…
Base targets June 25 mainnet launch for Beryl upgrade and new B20 token standard
Base's Beryl upgrade introduces the B20 native token standard, cuts withdrawal delays to 5 days, and activates on mai…